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Title: Canadian forest industries January-June 1923
Identifier: canadianforjanjun1923donm (find matches)
Year: 1923 (1920s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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CANADA LUMBERMAN si Veteran Official Has Earned Rest William Douglas, who recent- ly retired from the position of superintendent of the milling op- erations of Gillies Bros., Limit- ed, Braeside, Ont., and was hon- ored by a complimentary ban- quet and presentation at Brae- side, has long been an outstand- ing figure in the lumber line. He has been superannuated by the firm and was presented with a valuable gold watch, suitably in- scribed:—"To William Douglas from Gillies Bros., Limited, in appreciation of fifty-six years co- peration, 1866-1922." Mr. Doug- las fellow-employees at the same time gave him a smoking set and a gold-headed cane. Nu- merous friends of the veteran millman will wish him many more years to enjoy the quiet and rest of peaceful old age, Mr. William Douglas, Braeside, Ont. Douglas has always been a faith- ful, energetic servant, ever loyal to the company's interests and never sparing himself in advancing its welfare. He was stalwart and true and could be counted upon in any emergency, rising from a tail sawyer up through the various grades until he became superintendent of the splendid brick, steel and concrete, electrically- driven mill of Gillies Bros., the only one of its kind in Canada. His long record is one that stands out prominently in an industry which perhaps is characterized by more shifts and removals than many others. Mr. Douglas played his part and did it well and retires in the evening of life, conscious that he rendered gopd service and that his employers appreciate his effective labor and devotion to duty.
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Converting Waste Material Into Wood Flour A machine, which is rapidly coming to the front in woodwork- ing plants, planing mills, etc., is the Stroud Air Separation Wood Pulverizer and the Ail-Metal 100% Efficient Dust Collector. The installation of equipment for converting sawdust, shavings, planer chips and other waste into wood meal and wood flour, is a progres- sive move. Several new features of the satisfactory disposal of the product are looming up daily. The equipment is made by E. H. Stroud & Co., 928-934 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, and it is announced that the installations are the result of attempts made for years in order to save the numerous materials now being lost. The Stroud Air Separation Pulverizer is a machine grinding upon the attrition or beating principle, and separates successfully by air. It is pointed out that the pulverizer has no sieves ov screens. The bottom of the grinding chamber is closed and there is an air separation chamber above the grinding chamber, and also an exhaust fan on top. The machine receives its raw product through its automatic feeder in pieces of quite large size, if desired, and drives it around and around in its narrow rough grinding chamber with considerable force, making the lumps shatter each other to pieces and reducing them by one quick motion to whatever mesh and fineness may be desired. The coarseness or fineness of the product is regulated by the strength, velocity and expansion of the current of air induced by the exhaust fan and by other wrays that the air is used by the machine, which air also delivers the finished pro- duct through the fan. The Stroud Air Separation Pulverizer is for all sizes of dry grindable materials, and for some it carries 6% to 8% or sometimes more moisture, thus often eliminating the use of a dryer. Wood flour and wood meal are becoming more generally used and form a base for phonograph records, mouldings, oatmeal wall- ; paper, composition floors, artificial silk, artificial sausage casings, linoleums, terra cotta, porous brick and artificial mosaic flooring, wood fibre plaster, floor sweeping compounds, and many other products. Some Lumber Camps Then and Now I have not let such things as this, writes Capt. Robert Dollar in the Nations Business, make me think that conditions and people are getting worse instead of better. In many directions there are vast improvements. One instance of this is the difference between the better class of lumber camps and living conditions as I knew them as a boy in the Canadian woods. Then our stores consisted of fat salt pork in barrels, flour and peas. A few years after I started beans were added to the list. Tea was supplied to anyone who wished to pay $1 a month for it. Occasionally a few sacks of potatoes were sent in before the cold weather came. No other vegetables of any kind were used. The result of this monotonous diet was that in the spring of the year we had men laid up with the disease called "black leg." This is similar to the disease the Japanese and Chinese are afflicted with on board ships. It is called "berberi" and is caused by the constant use of rice. * Another disease that attacked many of us before we could get a change of food was what we called "night blind." As soon as the sun set we would become totally blind until after sunrise. All those so afflicted would have to be back in cam)) before sunset or they would have to be led. Even a candle did not help out, as it gave no light to those afflicted. By eating small pieces of cheese or drinking milk a complete cure was effected within five or six days. A big box was kept in each camp, called, for short a "van," properly "vanjouterie." In it were the tobacco and necessary cloth- ing that might be required. Our complete line of medicine consisted of the following: Radway's Ready Relief, salts, castor oil and stick- ing plaster. These were supposed to cure all the ills that the lum- bermen of those days were afflicted with—and I must say that the men were a strong, healthy lot. What a pity that employers should neglect the welfare of their men! It wras to their own hurt, for men afflicted could not do the work that healthy men could do. Men in our camps nowadays are never troubled with "black leg" or "night blindness." They are well fed, and with as good a variety, as the people in our city homes. May Expropriate Land for Nurseries There was recently passed in the Ontario Legislature a bill to empower the Minister of Lands and Forests to expropriate lands for nursery or reforestation purposes. Hon. Beniah Bowman, Min- ister of Lands and Forests, stated that the capacity of the Norfolk Nurseries had been doubled four times during the last year and that it was the intention of the Government to go ahead on a large scale. Premier Drury added that the bill sought to bestow a very neces- sary power. The Government wanted nursery sites which were very hard to get, and once it became known that the provincial au- thorities desired certain properties, lands, which were next to worth- less assumed a very considerable value. The new bill would over- come this difficulty by enabling the Government to expropriate land for nursery or reforestation purposes. New Members of the Association The following firms have recently joined the Canadian Lum- bermen's Association, Ottawa, Ont., the membership of which is growing steadily:— H- V. Berry, Fort Plain, N. Y. Blanchard Lumber Co., 126 State St., Boston, Mass. Brighton Lumber Co., Island Pond, Vt. John F. Burke, 33 West 42nd St., New York City. George F. Gray, Grand Central Terminal, New York City. Inspectors Lumber Co., West Chazy, N. Y. Robinson-Edwards Lumber Co., Burlington, VT. Stevens Lumber Co., 10 P.O Square, Boston, Mass. Woodstock Lumber Co., 131 State St., Boston. Mass. Thomas Bell, St. John, N. B. Brown Corporation, Quebec, P. Q. W. C. Cochrane. Sudbury, Ont. Church & Church Ltd., B33 Board of Trade Bldg., Montreal. English Lake Lumber Co., I'Israeli, P- Q. Jost Co., Limited, 285 Beaver Hall Hill, Montreal. P. O. Muskoka Wood Mfg. Co., Limited. Huntsville, Ont. R. O'Leary & Son, Richibucto, N. B. Pierce Lumber Co., Limited, Timmins, Ont. T. Prefontaine & Co., Montreal. P. O. St. Agathe Lumber & Construction Co- Ltd., Montreal, P. Q. Big Contract Awarded for Boilers A contract has been awarded by the Toronto Transportation Commission for four 72 inches by 20 feet horizontal return tubular boilers, 125 lb. working pressure, built to Ontario codes, to the En- gineering & Machine Works of Canada, Limited, of St. Catharines. A large breeching construction, 7 feet by 5 feet, and 60 feet long, connects the boilers to the stack. These boilers will be installed in the new $1,000,000 repair shops being erected on Bathurst St., by the T.T.C. Keen competition, not only in regard to price but in regard to quality of workmanship, in which the commission is very particular, characterized the letting of this contract.

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